Self-locking clothesline receiver



Patented May 3, 1927. l

UNITED' STATES P T E N T SELF-LOCKING CLOTHESLINE RECEIVER. Y.

Application led December 15, 1926. Sera1 No. 154,993.

vThis invention ,aims to yprovide novel means for holding a clothes line securely but releasably on a prop. f Figure l is a front elevation;

6 Figure 2 is a side elevation;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section; and

Figure 4 is a cross section.

A metal plate 2 is secured by screws 22 to a prop 1 and is made up of side strips 3 between which is located a guideway leoni-set keepers 5 connectingthe' strips at their upper and lower ends, and the strips being supplied at points intermediatetheir ends with upstanding fingers 6. A metal slide plate 7 is mounted to reciprocate in the guideway 4 of the member 2, beneath the keepers 5, and has an olf-set upstanding line seat 8 which is located between the lingers 6 when a rectangular-ly disposed stop 10 at the upper end of the slide plate 7 rests on the upper end of the prop l. The slide plate 7 has a depending upper line retainer 9 which projects toward the upper end of the seat 8, there being a reduced slot 11 between the lower end of the retainer 9 and the upper end of the seat 8. The seat 8 is shorter than the lingers 6, and the retainer 9 extends downwardly below aline A-B connecting the ends of the fingers 6, when the stop 10 engages the upper end of the prop l.

The slide 7 is pulled up until the slot l1 is above'the line A-B, and the clothes line l2 is engaged in the seat 8, through the slot 11. The slide 7 is released and moves downwardly until the stop l0 engages the upper end of the prop l, the line 12 being received behind the finger 6, and the general construction being such, as shown in Figure 1, that the line cannot well escape from behind the lingers 6, and out of the seat 8. Stop 10 causes practically all of the weight of the line 12 .and the clothes thereon to be carried directly by the prop land not by the securing elements 22 that connect the'i frame or plate 2 with the prop. l. I

l. In a device of the class described, a prop, a plate, means for mounting the plate slidably for upward and downward movements on the prop, means for limiting the,` downward movement of the plate, the plate having an upstanding seat and a depending` retainer cooperating with the seat to form a line-receiving slot, and there being an upstanding inger carried by the prop and located at one end of the seat when the plate is in its operative position.

2. In a device of the classdescribed, a prop, a slide mounted to reciprocate on the prop and having a stop adapted to engage the upper end of the prop, there being upstanding lingers on the prop located on opposite sides of the slide, the slide having a depending retainer extended downwardly below a line joining the upperends of the fingers when the slide is in its operative position.

3. In a device of the'class described, a member comprising side strips connected at their ends by keepers, a slide mounted for upward and downward movements between t the strips and behind the keepers, the slide being supplied at its upper end with a rearwardly projecting stop, upstanding fingers on the strips, an upstanding seat on the slide, the seat being located between the fingers, anda dependingfretainer on the slide, the retainer having its lower end spacedv from the upper end of the seat to form a line receiving slot.. Y S0 In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as myV own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

JERRY S. GREEN. 

